Apr 03, 2026 from Hackaday Burning Wood to Brew Wood to Preserve Wood : Pine Tar Before there was pressure-treated wood, before modern paints, there was pine tar. Everything from tool handles to wagons to ships were made of wood preserved with pine tar, once upon …read more
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Connecting Self-Hosted WP Site to Tags.pub Yesterday I shared Discover more of the Fediverse with tags.pub in my Pook-Emu Bee links for the day. The post introduces a new feature for the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin: Subscribing a site ...
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Takopi’s Original Sin Review Reminds Me of Narcissu Cabbage reviwed the anime adaptation of Takopi’s Original Sin on her always-fun Cabbage Sorter blog. Takopi was a short six-episode series which aired in summer season 2025. It was one of the last ...
Apr 03, 2026 from Hackaday For Such a Small Program, ZX81 1K Chess Sure Packs a Lot In The Sinclair ZX81 was hardly the most accomplished of 1980s 8-bit microcomputers, but its ultra-low-budget hardware was certainly pressed into service for some impressive work. Perhaps the most leg...
Apr 03, 2026 from Kev Quirk Update on the eBay Scam Last week I wrote about how I thought I was being scammed by someone on eBay. In the post I said the following: I've asked eBay to step in and help resolve the situation, so we will see what happen...
Apr 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 3 April 2026 Problems R Us Edition Top Story houston@nasa.gov, we have a problem. (Tom's Hardware) The crew of the Artemis II mission - basically retreading the path of Apollo 10, 97 years ago - ran into an iss...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net MidnightBSD 4.0.4 adds age verification, patches security flaw MidnightBSD 4.0.4 introduces new age verification tools, with the aged daemon and agectl utility enabling account and package-level age checking. This release also fixes a critical remote code exec...
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-03-26 Another non-Saturday day ending in -day means it is time for a new set of Pook-Emu Bee. However, this will be our last Pook-Emu Bee until fun Monday. Tomorrow, Saturday, is newsletter day (which co...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net AerynOS updates to GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6.3 with new package manager tools AerynOS now features GNOME 50 with improved parental controls, stable VRR and fractional scaling by default, and a move to Wayland-only sessions. KDE Plasma is updated to version 6.6.3, adding more...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ghost adds official Home Assistant integration for live publication data Ghost has released an official integration with Home Assistant, allowing users to import their publication data into smart home dashboards and automation systems. Key Ghost metrics, such as member ...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, a low-cost video model for developers Google has released Veo 3.1 Lite, a video generation model that costs under half as much as Veo 3.1 Fast while delivering the same speed. The model supports both text-to-video and image-to-video wo...
Apr 03, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 364: Clocks, Cameras, and Free Will This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over assorted beverages to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of …read more
Apr 03, 2026 from Jordi Villar Nobody Talks About the Hardware These days I’ve found myself reading about hardware shortage and how RAM, disk, and NAND manufacturers have all their production for 2026 already sold to AI/Data center companies. It had me thinkin...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ChatGPT Voice Mode is now available on Apple CarPlay OpenAI has enabled ChatGPT’s Voice mode in Apple CarPlay, letting users talk to ChatGPT directly from their car’s dashboard. To use it, you need an iPhone running the latest versions of iOS and the...
Apr 03, 2026 from Hackaday Fixing an E-Waste ASUS P5A-B Socket 7 Mainboard A fun part of retro computing is saving ‘e-waste’ that was headed for certain destruction. These boards can have any number of defects, modifications and more that have to be …read more
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Waterfox to integrate Brave adblock engine, with search ads enabled by default Waterfox is set to integrate Brave’s open-source adblocking engine directly into the browser, replacing reliance on extension-based blockers, as announced in a blog post marking the project’s 15 ye...
Apr 03, 2026 from Hackaday This Week in Security: The Supply Chain Has Problems The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP project. Axios …read more
Apr 03, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 14/2026 We are on holiday. The week before the holiday was mostly spent covering for things that can happen during the vacation. Of course, you can’t imagine everything and solve it. But I think the teams ...
Apr 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Fuzzy file finder Cling 2.0 debuts with rewritten search engine, new filters and CLI tools Cling 2.0 has been released as the latest version of this macOS utility for instant fuzzy file search. Its search engine has been completely rebuilt to run natively, no longer relying on external t...
Apr 03, 2026 from It's FOSS Proton Launches Workspace and Meet, Takes Aim at Google and Microsoft These two launches ought to keep Big Tech on their toes.
